Please all Opera 8 or 9 users, check if you can play those videos in Gentoo. I know this sounds awkard, but I've been through testing different versions of Qt, both Blackdown and Sun JRE, completely different and vanilla Opera browser setups.

And the reason why I think this could be Gentoo related is because the only other user to chime in having that same problem was another Gentoo user.

Sure the plugins are enabled, since some Flash-sites works just fine.
Google Video and YouTube are good examples of services that doesn't work.
Their flash-videos just keeps loading/buffering and never start._________________https://niko.nwps.fi

Kaste: I see by the postings made that there are several others with the same problem. You're the first one to report that it works. Yeah the plugin was enabled .

So you actually see those videos playing. Is there ever anything out of the ordinary you modified about your Gentoo that might affect Operas behaviour? I do see the flash frontend for the player - and generally all flash pieces otherwise provided. Just not the video.

I'm still so mystified that I have no reliable idea what to blame it on. If you read the Opera board postings (link in first posting of this thread) you'll see that - as far as Opera setups are concerned, I've tried everything in the book - and then some.

augury: Not sure what your question is really aimed at. You normally want to install stuff of your own there to distinguish between files portage installed for you and files you installed yourself.

This seems to be a problem with file premissions of some sort. When i d\l and untar'd the official package from http://www.macromedia.com as my user and set opera's pluginpath to the dir i untar'd to, it works fine.

Disregard my last post. After some more testing I've found out that the premissions are ok. Instead, opera can't display the video if the plugin is located inside a directory named "netscape" [examples below]. This must be a problem with the Opera Proxy plugin, afaik, and probably not gentoo related. If someone could test this so we're sure, it'd be great.

EDIT: Might actualy be a problem with the plugin itself, although it works in firefox so i doubt that is the case.
EDITx2: uhh, unless firefox copies the plugin to its own plugin directory that is. If it does, then it might be the flash plugins fault.

Amazing work, really. I was at one point wondering if symbolic links could be blamed for this, but then again, I was always reminded that Netscape/Firefox use that very same plugin. Now - but you're asking the right question here... is Firefox really using it from that location or does Firefox copy it elsewhere first?

Confirmed, your approach works. I'm closing the bug on Gentoo, thanks so much for your help!

Would you please file this as a bug at Opera or Flash? I can do it too, but I'm not sure where it actually really belongs right now... do you?

How did you get the 9.x-version in portage? I am waiting for weeks now to even get it ~x86... My portage only shows the 8.53 version as latest package..._________________"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
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But Im using opera 9_beta2 (the ebuild at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122036 works fine now) and it consumes all my cpu while playing a video on video.google.com. Does the problem comes from my pc or from this beta version? (or both or none, devlop )

Try setting the variable XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 and start X from that environment.
Apparently flash and opera son't play nicely with the composite extension.

Hope this helps, it did fix the problem here. There's one or two threads about that here, searching for that variable should turn them up if you want some more information._________________Please put [SOLVED] in your topic if you are a moron.